[IRCA] KSON-1240 is running Spanish in the afternoons - other SD news

["Tim Hall" <tim_hall_dx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I checked this afternoon, and in response to yesterday's question, KSON-1240 
is indeed running spanish programming in the afternoons now.  I didn't hear 
any Radio Formula mentions, but the announcer mentioned several stations in 
his network, including 97.5 FM in LA, 740 AM in Phoenix, 1090 in Fortuna, 
880 in "Portland" (Dallas, OR), etc.  They were running a terribly lame talk 
show.  Most of the callers couldn't figure out to listen to the phone 
instead of their radio; when he finally got a few callers who understood how 
talk radio works, all he could think to ask them was, "How are you?" and 
"Where are you from?".  I bet even the airport TIS will beat these 
knuckleheads in the ratings...   I'm surprised that with such a large Asian 
community here that there wouldn't be enough support for 24 hours of 
programming in Asian languages.  We're oversaturated with spanish formats 
since some of the FMs on the San Diego side switched to Spanish a few years 
back.

Speaking of knuckleheads, XEPE-1700 was off again today.  No sign of 
XESS-780 the last few days.  XESDD-920 has definitely not raised power yet; 
they were still weaker than KECR-910 when I checked at 6am.

KCEO-1000 "The owl" is actually running a nice mix of classic and 
contemporary BBD music and some NOS/EZL at night, not oldies as had been 
expected.  They still run brokered "snake-oil salesmen" during the day.  
These guys are close to getting a clue again.  They had one of the best 
locally-programmed BBD/NOS formats in the country when they were KMLO 20 
years ago.

73, Tim Hall
Chula Vista, CA

http://www.inetworld.net/halls/dx/index.html

All dates/times mentioned in my reports are Eastern Local Time for 
US/Canadian stations and GMT for all others.

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